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Numerous Corrections to Hamelman's BREAD

Numerous Corrections to Hamelman's BREAD

As some of you may know, the MellowBakers.com group bake is working through the entire Hamelman book "Bread: A baker's Book of Techniques and Recipes". So far we've got through seven of the 85 or so recipes listed and have uncovered a few issues with the recipes as printed in a few different printingss (they're not all the same), including simple conversion errors like 8 oz of cornmeal being noted as 1/4 cup (it's actually 1.5 cups) as well as revisions to the formulas such as a complete change in the paste recipe for Hot Cross Buns.

Since we're moving onward and I wanted to find the most thorough source of corrections so we wouldn't be constantly surprised by these blips, I tried looking up Wiley's Errata sheet for the book but, as someone here already noted, this is futile. Wiley isn't publishing any changes or correction on their site, at least not for this book.

So since the publisher was not a good source of info, I went to the next best source: Jeffrey Hamelman himself.

He was kind enough to send me his latest updated list of corrections along with a note to please share it with everyone so I'd like to do just that.

Because we can't upload this type of file here, I've got the document (it's in Word .doc format) on our site and everyone is welcome to nab themselves a copy.

Have your pencil ready and sharpened, there's six pages of updates and corrections to jot into your books! (And before people grumble at Jeff for the errors, keep in mind that his own formulas are in the Metric column and sized for his bakery production; the publishers at Wiley did the conversions and the Home column is where the vast bulk of errors came in.)

Paul - Thanks for your efforts! However, I've gone to your site, and I cannot find a word doc to download. At the risk of seeming simple-minded, where on the page linked to the url you've listed above is the downloadable word document.

In fact the whole Microsoft Office Suite is available in a Mac Compatible version - you just have to buy it.

If you don't want to support MS, you can download the Openoffice suite of programs for free if it is for personal use.

openoffice.org

All of the openoffice suite programs open MS Office files and will save them in MS Office, Openoffice, or other formats.

This is what I use.

All that said, pdf files are great ways to distribute documents.

Just as MS programs aren't restricted to PC's, Adobe programs aren't restricted to Mac's. I run into a number of Mac users who think they can only get the features of Adobe programs if they are using a Mac when all of those programs also run on PC's - you just get the PC version. There are far more PC versions sold than Mac versions.

I'll collect any new ones we run across as we're baking and pass them on to Mr Hamelman as well as update the list myself.

It's a bit awkward making sure we get everything because not all printings are the same. My copy (5th printing) has this error corrected but someone with an earlier printing will still have the error. You must have an early printing.

If anyone here runs into new undiscovered ones, please do add them to this thread.

I also know some of you have posted corrections in other threads, if you don't see your earlier finds in the current list, we should make note of that here as well.

BTW, to see what printing your copy is, check the front pages and the last number in the list is yours. If the below list continued with 4 3 2, that would be the second printing. They delete one number for each printing.

The "correction" for the Vermont Sourdough with Increased Whole Grain does seem wrong. It is not consistent with the comment in the accompanying sidebar. The ingredient amounts for the Liquid Levain printed for the Home version in my (10th) printing appear correct, and they are exactly 2x the amounts in the errata sheet.

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